Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 37, sentence 165
But as soon as ever the old man dropped off to sleep both of them fell down and were killed.
Who acts: old man, both · What happens: drop off, sleep, fall down, kill
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 dropped | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 dropped | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 ever | case |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 soon | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dropped | nsubj |
| 9 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 dropped | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sleep | mark |
| 12 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dropped | advcl |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 both | nmod |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sleep | ccomp |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fell | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop off | past | the old man | ever | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall down | past | both of ages | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | both of ages not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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